In article <SNVv6.128157$tP3.2040832 at news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>, "John
E. Barham" <bezilla at hotmail.com> writes:
| Apologies if this is too basic a question, but I'm wondering how I can send
| a redirect/URL rewrite command to a browser via Python.
| The context: we're developing a fairly substantial Web-based application
| and using Python for the CGI coding (which is working beautifully, BTW). In
| order to partially protect ourselves (and the users ;) against
| back/forward/refresh with forms, we'd like to send them to a "safe" URL
| after a form has been submitted. How can we do this? There doesn't appear
| to be anything to do this in module cgi...
| If it's a server dependent thing, we're using Apache.
def print_redirect(url):
print 'Status: 302 Moved Temporarily'
print 'Location:', url
print 'Pragma: no-cache'
print 'Content-Type: text/html'
print
print '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML//EN">'
print '<title>Redirect (302)</title>'
print '<h1>302 Moved Temporarily</h1>'
print '<p>The answer to your request is located at'
hurl = cgi.escape(url, 1)
print '<a href="%s">%s</a>.' % (hurl, hurl)
note that the url must be absolute.
-- erno